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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1900
Page
7
Senator Shoup and General Hunton recalled a battle where Hunton’s regiment fell from full strength to 200 men during Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg. Hunton asked Shoup to guess how many survived, and Shoup could not, as Hunton answered only ten survived the perilous assault.
A terse local note describes Jinks as a hateful figure in Bilkine who is often blamed for trouble and accused of habitually borrowing money from residents.
A collection of satirical, moralizing lines on character, ambition, love, and social behavior drawn from newspaper chatter. It cites anecdotes about a watchmaker, a public spirited candidate, marriage wealth, and remarks on women talkativeness and nerves, with snippets from Chicago News and Tremorst News items.
The excerpt recalls James Whitcomb Riley and "Bil" Nye hosting audiences with sly humor, and recounts Nicholas I’s rough discipline of a careless household official. Bishop Whipple’s Reminiscences add a militia colonel’s pomp, a Great Father line, and an Indian chief’s wary praise of white warriors in a vivid 19th century anecdotal montage.
A collage of jokes and bits from Chicago and Philadelphia papers. It features humorous exchanges about church, bosses, printed circulars, tipping a waiter, and a rural post office note asking about a son named John who is racing the sheriff. The tone stays light and observational with regional flavor.
A string of light quips about golf from various newspapers shows playful exchanges about playing versus talking golf, marriage, dialects, and Sunday boating. Notable lines reference Miss Loveman and McJigger Niblack, with jokes on etiquette, competition, and mischief in golf culture.
A printed puzzle lists 18 numbered clues with answers like Penn Lee Bacon Wolfe Banka Barr Hull Gates Hood Bee Clay Bove 1 Pierce Price Mason 7 Burnsides 3 Marly and more. The fragment shows misread spellings and stray numbers, presenting a puzzle that pairs terms for tools, bodies, titles, colors, and roles with a final junk string.
A strange clipping of a pencil in Clifton West Virginia discolors a ball and leaves one eye blue and the other purple. A Chester Pennsylvania toddler slips into a well but is saved unharmed. A Georgia convict carries four water buckets in a strange yoke. Lizzie Hickman of Ocilla suffershead pain after a ear wax incident. Katie G Sertt near St Louis predicts her death before dying. Milton Mellett in Belfast township gains twin blessings with a cow and a sheep both delivering twins, including a mixed triple set of twin offspring.
Former Gov. Taylor of Tennessee reportedly cleared $30,000 in his lecture season. Rep. Dolliver accepted an invitation to address the Texas Colorado Chautauqua on July 30. Obituaries note John W. Gillon, a Waterloo veteran who died near Weymouth at 97, and James Stillman Phillips, famed as Jeems Phillips of Eggeston. Also mentioned are relics from Charles I in London and a Scots dialect exchange about a declaration of love. Byron memorials and a Byron birthplace curiosity are cited, with a final garbled line about Patti born in Maéria.
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